Self-Awareness: The Cycle of Success and Areas of Improvement

This article discusses the cycle of success and areas of improvement in self-awareness. It covers the importance of taking action, making mistakes, reflecting upon the mistakes, learning from the mistakes, and growing. It also highlights the author's strengths and weaknesses in communication skills.

Running head: SELF-AWARENESS
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Question 2: The cycle of success
In my view, the cycle of success must have elements like taking action, making mistakes,
reflecting upon the mistakes, learning from the mistakes and growing and lastly correcting the
mistakes. One more element to that cycle could be added and that is never repeating the
mistakes. I believe putting in dedicated effort leads to success and success in turn increases self-
esteem.
The cycle of success however has many interpretations and most commonly, it is used to
describe the success and failure within business organizations. The cycle of success in business
consists of factors like employee satisfaction, training of employees, higher rate of profit margins
and so on (Goodwin and Graebe 2017). In my case, the cycle of success involves my personal
achievement, training and subsequent satisfaction. As Evans (2018) puts it, mistakes are the best
way to learn and the cycle continues throughout life because humans always commit mistakes.
I have previously mentioned that my style of learning involves reading and writing and if
I fail to concentrate on these two aspects of my learning style, I might not succeed. I should be
aware that at this stage of my life I am bound to make mistakes while reading or writing. I must
remember that once I have surpassed the phase of making mistakes I could achieve success.
Question 5:
A. The one or two areas in which I am most strong –
I can confidently state that I am very good at visualizing or one can say, imagining. This
means that I am very strong at creating new ideas and stitching up stories.
B. The one or two areas in which I need improvement –
The area that concerns me most is my ability to deliver speech especially in front of a
crowd. In fact, I feel extremely nervous even while giving presentations in front of the class. I
am not a good communicator I can say and - one major area that needs improvement.

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C. If I only did one thing to improve this area, it would be –
It is hard to state any one thing that I will have to do to improve upon my communication
skills. Nonetheless, to start with I can start communicating with the people I feel comfortable and
gain confidence gradually.
D. Making this change would probably result in –
It would most likely result in a marked improvement of communication skills especially
in front of a crowd. It would surely allow me to express my views and opinions clearly, while I
work in teams.
E. If I did not change or improve in this area, it would probably affect my personal and
professional life in the following ways:
First, it would prove an obstacle in my cycle of success, as I would not be able to move
ahead in the cycle because I would continuously be making mistakes.
Second, I would not be able to express my grievances while working in a team thus
leading to a stressed mind. It would further hamper my professional life when I will be working
for any organization.
Third, having weak communication skills might stop me from expressing my anger or
frustration to the wrongs I face in my personal life as well.

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References:
Evans, T., 2018. Reflective Practice and Learning from Mistakes in Social Work, Alessandro
Sicora. The British Journal of Social Work.
Goodwin, G.C. and Graebe, S.F., 2017. The Cycle of Success. In A Doctorate and Beyond (pp.
141-152). Springer, Cham.